. store uptheir goods; he reasoned with them on the impropriety of their proceedings,and the great danger the frontier inhabitants would be exposed to if theIndians now should get a supply; he said it was well known that they hadscarcely any ammunition, and were almost naked; to supply them now wouldbe a kind of murder, and would be illegally trading at the expense of theblood and treasure of the frontiers. Notwithstanding his powerful reasoningsthese traders made game of what he said, and would only answer him by ludi-crous burlesqu
. store uptheir goods; he reasoned with them on the impropriety of their proceedings,and the great danger the frontier inhabitants would be exposed to if theIndians now should get a supply; he said it was well known that they hadscarcely any ammunition, and were almost naked; to supply them now wouldbe a kind of murder, and would be illegally trading at the expense of theblood and treasure of the frontiers. Notwithstanding his powerful reasoningsthese traders made game of what he said, and would only answer him by ludi-crous burlesque. When I beheld this, and found that Mr. Duffield would not compel themto store up their goods, I collected ten of my old warriors that I had formerlydisciplined in the Indian way, went off privately after night, and encamped inthe woods. The next day Smith and his men brought the traders to their ownterms—prevented them from carrying the goods to their place of destination. *Henry Pawling, one of the early settlers and leading spirits of Antrim C7~,0l /^Oat^ tXi UoilOUGH OF MEBOERSBURG. 509 ORIGINAL PLAT. By a son of the aforesaid Squire Smith, \\ illiain Smith, Jr., the town ofMercersburg was laid out, the original town plat yet to be seen, somewhat dis-figured, in a public office in the village, bearing date March 17, 178(>. Lad Itsix streets, three north and south, viz.: Main, Fayette and Park, and threeeast and west, Seminary, California and Oregon. The paper above referredto, which should have been recorded at the county seat, has been so thor-oughly blurred as to make it difficult to decipher the names of the original lotholders. The following few were secured: Benjamin Sterrett, Chas. Tipper,Win. Leaman, George Robertson, James Davidson, Win. Elliott, James Hus-ton (a captain in the Revolutionary war, to whose company, as it was ready tostart for the field, the celebrated Dr. King made a very patriotic speech. —Seechapter on Revolutionary war) and Rob
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